How Iran deal could cut Albany oil traffic

Analysts are saying that the Iran nuclear deal likely will open the door to Iran’s oil reserves, the third largest in the world, expanding the glut of crude on the market and squeezing out higher-cost suppliers. Those would include the “light, tight oil” supplied by domestic hydrofracking.

Albany, of course, is a major transshipment point for the shale flowing from North Dakota’s oil fields, which are already struggling to compete with a glut of Saudi oil. The port sees as many as 700 trains a year, each a mile long, arriving from the Bakken fields.

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